Gesucht: Die Frau des Banditen S. (TV Movie 1976)

Gesucht: Die Frau des Banditen S.: Directed by Lee Philips. With Katharine Ross, Steve Forrest, Stella Stevens, Michael Constantine. The Sundance Kids widow Etta Place joins up with Pancho Villa.

“For a TV sequel to the popular 1969 film, u0026quot;Wanted: The Sundance Womanu0026quot; ainu0026#39;t bad. It came out 8 years later and Katherine Ross still looks great with her inimitable winsome spirit.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTHE PLOT: Butch and Sundance are long gone (dead in Bolivia) and Etta Place (Ross) is hiding out as a store clerk in Arizona. A burly detective is on her case and determined to find her (Steve Forrest). When the husband of the couple she was staying with is jailed for harboring a fugitive (Michael Constantine) Etta goes to revolutionary Pancho Villa for help (Hector Elizondo).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI wasnu0026#39;t expecting much from this TV movie; itu0026#39;s too talky, but it won me over. This can be attributed to Rossu0026#39; charm, a decent cast (also with Stella Stevens and Katherine Helmond), the Old Tucson locations, the team-up with Pancho Villa, quality train sequences and some solid writing with good subtext; for instance, the way Etta does good to her enemy and a characteru0026#39;s realization that the criminal he made out to be a monster is not a monster at all.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film runs 95 minutes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGRADE B or 6.5/10u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePS: Thereu0026#39;s another sequel to u0026quot;Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidu0026quot; called u0026quot;Blackthorn,u0026quot; released in 2011, starring Sam Shepherd as Butch Cassidy. The outlaw didnu0026#39;t die in that 1908 shootout in Bolivia and is living on a small ranch in the Bolivian wilderness in 1927 where he decides to go back to the USA to meet his son. Itu0026#39;s a quality modern Western (see my review for details).”